• Best- and Worst-Reviewed Games of 2008

    ...or two…. Even if you are the number one rape fan in the universe, there have to be better alternatives.” Trivia: Not only did this game receive the lowest score...

  • The Vana’diel Diaries (March 2007)

    ...be harder going, but I just destroyed 40 by 24. Let’s go for 50 by 15, two days before Erador’s yearly Ides of March/St. Patrick’s Day Party. This year they’ll...

  • Final Fantasy II (SNES)

    ...in execution, most problems of which are due to the era in which it was produced. There’s not a bad track in the game, with a fair number of songs...

  • Metroid II: Return of Samus (GB)

    ...so rightly deserved. With the soldiers back at home having little to do, we saw an increase in the number of children being born. Post-war America saw a vast expansion...

  • Burnout Paradise (PS3)

    ...to record your time, which is automatically entered into an online leaderboard. Each road can also be turned into a mini-destruction derby simply by holding down R1+L1 and crashing into...

  • Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

    ...see my deep, still-warm love for her even as I desperately tried to glimpse as much of her fading visage as I could from the corner of my eye. But...

  • Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (Wii)

    ...up for the game’s controls. Small history lesson: Barrel Blast was originally a GameCube game designed to make use of the DK Bongo controller, where you’d bash on the left...

  • Rayman (PS1)

    ...name on it. Rayman is everything you want out of a videogame, period. The graphics, the music, the design, the layout, the big things, the small things—everything about this game...

  • Snowboard Kids (N64)

    ...of being a kid-friendly utopia for families in the late 90s. It was an early title in the consoles life-span, and it was good enough to spawn another two titles...

  • Inside the Guide: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

    ...a list of characters from Wikipedia and used it to create a “Characters” section. I tried to rearrange the characters in the order you meet them (Wikipedia has them in...